Arch-support for shoes.



1. P. ANDERSON.

ARCH SUPPORT FOR sHoEs.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-4| 1914.

1 13:5304; Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

. JOHN P. ANDERSON,

To'all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, JoHN P. .ANoERsoN,'a citizen of Sweden, (with first papers in United States,) residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado,

United States of. America, have invented.

certain new and useful Improvements in Arch-Supports for Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

j Thls invention relates toresilient arch supports for shoes and has for an object to provide a resilient support which shall be securely, but not rigidly, mounted at both .ends.

I Another object is to provide, in a device of: the class described, support retaining mem' bers which shall securely retain the resilient supporting member in. desired position when in use but still permit the ready removal and -1'eplacer'nent of the supporting member when desired without change in or interference with. the retaining members.

- With theseand other objects in View the invention comprises certain novel construction, combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and as illustrated in the accompanying drawingsin which similar characters of reference indicate-corres-pond-' ing parts throughout the several views and in which Figure I. is a side elevation of a shoe with my invention in place thereon, a portion of the heel of the shoe being cut away in order to expose the entire invention to view. Fig. II. is a plan of the bottom of a shoe with my support attached, showing a portion of my invention in dotted lines. Fig. III. is a side view of my invention showing the detail thereof and showing a section of the socket on line A-A in Fig. II. Fig. IV. is a detail of the connection between the spring and the rear support.

My invention consists of three parts, a

' front fastening or socket member 1 attached to the under side of the arch 2 of the shoe at the forward and lower part thereof by suitable means as nails 3, a spring 4 having one end slidingly mounted in said member and having its other end hooked as at 5 and having a lug 6 thereon, and a rear fastening I Specification oi Letters Patent. Application flled' August 4; 1914. 'SerialNo. 855,011 1 Strip TsuficieflflY #0 R mit spfrin a thus stand; awayas suchrdistafiw t my: I

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I comprising a str ip;7 hooked-as at S for'em 56 gaging'hook 5 and having'an 'openiiigijQ- frj' engaging h1g6.

-- .Strip 7 is slidingly moanaainrh neeigor the shoe prefera'bly'atits point of juncture with the shoe'as shown at Fig."I-., a 'suitable 60 socket cut in the heel as --at"l0'-'for-the-reception of strip 7 being all-that is'requi'red for such mounting, or strip] 7 n ayim b5 driven in 'betweentheheel and the'shoel 5. i'

ingpointed as'at 7 for thatpurpose'.

l It'will be noted that spring 4 i's'so bent vthat the end thereof carryin the-hook stands away from the'sho'e "so e or arch-as at 11 and'hook 8 is-ofisetbelowthebody of space" between "the "shoef"sole"'drl arch" and f spring 4 at 11- 1s 'sli'ghtlyfiin ofthe length of lug/1 6L: It"follows'fthat whelfthe J spring is raised against the shoeiclo'sin '-.t,se*1fl5,.] I I space at 11,1ug '6- will'be withdrawnrams opening 9 and spring-4 may"bemoved'siZIe wise 'in either direction untilh'ook is maven beyond and thus disengaged from hook 8 I when pressure on its other'endmay be re '80 r leased and spring 4' may be'dra'wn' socket: member 1.- .Converselythespring'isput in position by inserting the end fintei -socket member 1, raising the hooked' end 5 and s'liding'it into Hook" 8; andreleasing the as pressure; whereupon the'spring-actiolican'ses 1 it to stand away frc'm'ahej-sheeand causes lug 6 to engage openin s asshown in'tlie drawings. By this constnictibnavoid at taching the support to the shoe by rigid means which either tear"'outbr m-Elseit'ntirferer with the elasticity of the support. I also i provide a support which is simple and easily attached to any shoe. It will be noted that'the spring 4 may be readilyremoved and replaced as above described. This is a great 'advanta e. It often happens that a person with a roken down arch can at first, during cure of the same, wear-a support only slightly arched, but as the treatment continues he can wear a support arched more and more. M invention meets this condition by providlng simple means for changing the spring support 4 without changing any other portions of the device, or the spring may be taken out and bent so as to have an arch of a less radius and then replaced. In this way exact edrstmeweei was a nation' exiStln ii1 each case can be easil quickly made.

the shoe be so bent as to cause the spring t and hook 5 to draw upon book 8, no injury can bev done thereby to the shoe or to the supportingl device for the reason that such action wi result in drawing strip 7 forward in and partly out of its socket 10 the heel and so holding it until the shoe re:

- sumes its normal position as shown in the v and press against the under side of the arch -11 as above drawings when the pressure of spring 4 and hook. 5 against hook 8 will forcc'strip 7 back." toits normal position as shown'in the drawgs. I 7 As clearly shown inthe' drawings, spring 4 is formed to normally follow the line of of the shoe, thussupporting the same, except where-it stands away leaving space at described. Conversely any. weight upon the arch will tend to depress or atten the spring 4 and project the end thereof farther into socket member 1.

I It will be. noted that the front end of the y socket member 1 is closed by a wall l which acts as a stop for the end of spring 4, andit will be apparent that when the end of spring 4 against the heel, furtherldepression or flat-1 tening of the. spring 4 will be impossible so that the extent of the depression of spring 4 may begoverned by the position of socketlmember 1, greater depression be- 3 ing permitted the farther forward the socket member is placed with relation to the of the end of spring 4 near. the front end of'the latter,- a spring= support of normally greater curvature than. the arch with its front end inserted in said strikesthis wall, the, opposite end being positioned in hook 8 and thus braced and second mom I iasaeoe "carried by the heeland with which the rear It will be evident that should the sole of.

connected. .1

2., An arch support for shoes comprising a soeket'mefnber secured beneath the arch end of said-spring support is detachably member and its rear end spaced slightly be- 7 low the arch and .bent downward into a hook, and a strip attached to the heel and having its front end bent upward into a hookadapted to removably engage the hook on. the spring support.

3. An arch support for shoes comprising a socket member secured beneath the arch near the front-end of the latter, a spring support of normally greater curvature than the arch with its front end inserted in said member and its rear end spaced slightly below the arch and bent downward into a hook-shaped rear end, the bill of the hook having a strip insertedin the heel and having its front end bent-u ward into a hook whose throat is dispose beneath the .bill of the hook. on the spring support and provided pith angopening for; a the reception of said 4.. In adevi'cefof. the class described, a spring .support,;. a;socket member for receivingfon'e end of-wid spring support, and a second member, for engaging the other end of said spring support, said'spring support or being arranged to be held in such engagement normally by the tension of said spring support and to be disengaged by depression 0 its last-named end. In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN P. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

CABLE WHITEHEAD, ALBERT L. Voen.

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